Metallic Black Duo-Sonic Build

[Chris Fleming]

I like the red too... a matching headstock would look pretty class. Nice job!

White knobs would look good too

[Doug]

I like the red too... a matching headstock would look pretty class. Nice job!

Woah, now yer talkin serious cool...

[tomin8r]

NAME HER CATHERINE

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[serfx]

Awesome but needs a white pearl guard now.

Awww I like the red.

The red tort is perfect. It has some black in it and that works so well with your metalic black paint and the dark neck.

But wait...my Duo-Sonic doesn't have the Mustang phase switches...what up

probably because this is a duo sonic II
has no 3-way, but has phase switches

its prob my fav hard tail guitar...


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Also, keep the red guard, it's teh sex

[Doug]

Thanks, mate...a 1964 - '68 Duo II.

[HNB]

Red guard is staying for sure. I did change the bridge pickup to a sixties pickup instead of the jaguar pickup it came with. Can't wait to try it out.

[Doug]

Red guard is staying for sure. I did change the bridge pickup to a sixties pickup instead of the jaguar pickup it came with. Can't wait to try it out.

Good God, HNB...yer build took less time than this. I'm mailin you some strings.

[HNB]

LOL

[Doug]

I like the red too... a matching headstock would look pretty class.

I relate to your visual aesthetic, Chris. You like the visual integration of a matching heaadstock. Last year I discovered a shortcut variation on the matching headstock look...

I have a Les Paul Special, the twp P90s model with the Art Deco pick guard (that's what I call it, sort of Buck Rogers "modern"). Well, that pick guard design is a bit too angular for my taste...I prefer the graceful pick guard on the Les Paul Junior, and also love tort.

So, when I made a new tort pick guard fir the Special in a Junior shape, I used the scrap tort to make a matching Truss Rod Cover. Instant visual integration like you get with a matching headstock. More subtle but much easier & cheaper to do.

Cheers,

[HNB]

Kind of pissed. Got strings on and realized the saddles barely go high enough to get off the neck. It is like the bridge is sitting too low. I got them high enough, but they won't intonate right. Looks like I need to buy longer intonation screws. There goes a good set of strings...

[Chris Fleming]

Cheers Doug... Sometime it works better not having the match but I think with this one with the dark fingerboard, it should have a matching headstock. Actually, even without it would be better matching. I don't know but if the colour doesn't repeat somewhere it doesn't usually make sense to me? I've know friends to build acoustics out of like five or six different woods, all expensive, all gorgeous but don't quite match up in my eyes.

Anyhoo, I mentioned before but the easiest and simplest improvement would be to have the white version of the knobs... I'm sure someone posted a guitar that featured them recently? Seeing as no other bit of plastic is black and especially seeing as the slider switches are white I think the black one look odd?

[Doug]

Cheers Doug...Seeing as no other bit of plastic is black and especially seeing as the slider switches are white I think the black one look odd?

Yeah, Chris, I can see white knobs. Good suggestion.

HNB... ....!!!! But when you get that glitch fixed, she'll be fine and you'll be playin away. We're with ya on this so keep us posted.

Cheers,

[HNB]

Thanks! It will be a little bit. I ordered two inch intonation screws to get more room to move the saddles. I also got some compensated brass saddles I might try on it.

[Doug]

Thanks! It will be a little bit. I ordered two inch intonation screws to get more room to move the saddles. I also got some compensated brass saddles I might try on it.

Progress...

(BTW, did ya eat all those candy hearts?)

[HNB]

(BTW, did ya eat all those candy hearts?)

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[Doug]

(BTW, did ya eat all those candy hearts?)

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"Don't click this link"...yours? or did ya borrow this?

[HNB]

Oh the candy tub girl. I forget when I added that in. Someone here told me I should have tub girl in my sig. I liked that picture better.

[HNB]

All done. I was able to intonate it, but the saddles maxed have action that is really low. (Almost buzzing.) Sadly that means this will be wall art, but it was still a fun run. I can't really do much more for it without having the bridge higher.


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[cur]

take a side shot of the neck in the pocket. Maybe you could route the pocket an 1/16 - 1/8" deeper. there is always a fix for a funky guitar.

[HNB]

It is already thin because it is a vintage body. If I took more off of the body, the neck screws would likely be too long. I would shim the bridge I guess. With thirty guitars I just don't feel like it. I will probably toss it or trade it cheap. Honestly kind of tired of messing with it.